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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank You, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. In absence of any other contributor, you can extend my time to maybe 15 minutes until we get the next contributor coming around. I am happy to be here and support the Committee, and wish that what prompted this Committee to be formed should not be used as a precedent to prompt other commissions to be under surveillance. In this case, I am imagining that we are not going to use the same method which was used to have a committee formed and discussed in the Senate and extend it to other constitutional committees. I hope it will not happen. Secondly, I am a victim of what is called the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). I remember in 2007, I had won the elections. The same IEBC we are discussing discussed my fate through Judge Kriegler and found that I had won because the Returning Officer even apologized to the Commission that he had made a mistake by announcing the wrong person. If this is the same IEBC that we are discussing, then it should have gone a long time ago, because it is the one which made me stay out for five years without even appearing in the Tenth Parliament, having won. If that is what we are discussing, to have credible IEBC, then I support the Committee. I hope that they will not only sit for the 30 days but they should even be confirmed to be there even after election, if they will all be elected. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is important also to also note that once IEBC or a member in the name of Returning Officer makes a mistake and it is confirmed that the mistake is theirs, they should own it so that we do not go into unnecessary costs of going for a by-election like the way it happened in my case. If it was not for the mistake that was made by the Electoral Commission, I would have been declared the winner of my constituency in the 2007 elections but it never happened. So, I hope that this Committee might also find it necessary to divulge a bit and come up with some possible amendments to the electoral laws so that if a situation like that one is to happen, somebody should not be seen like he can be denied the opportunity to represent his people just because somebody in IEBC has made a mistake. I am holding the Electoral Commission responsible for not declaring me a Member of Parliament in the year 2007, for five years. It also important to note that the IEBC should be responsible for maintaining peace and tranquility in this country, in the sense that when it comes to nominations, there are some areas where nominations will be like the elections. Going by the recent Bill that was assented to the other day, it is like now we are having blocs; one in CORD and the other one in Jubilee. If somebody gets a nomination in some areas in CORD, that is the end. It is similar in Jubilee. I am asking this Committee and the IEBC to take note of that. The nominations should be taken seriously as if there were no other elections except that. In the absence of IEBC not taking the nominations seriously, we are going to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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